<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:39 AM, James Cameron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank">quozl@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 05:51:55PM +1000, James Cameron wrote:<br>
> I like Sugar Network, because the problem of content sharing is<br>
> examined from a top down design perspective, including the constraint<br>
> that internet connectivity might not be available, or it may be<br>
> intermittent.<br>
><br>
> On the other hand, the two School Server projects (XS and XSCE) seem<br>
> to be bottom up designs; here's a Linux server, now how can we use<br>
> it?<br>
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</div>After private mail, I retract this. It was a false impression based<br>
on the Wiki pages for XS and XSCE, which emphasise technical<br>
specifications rather than the functional specifications or features.<br>
<br>
(e.g. XS_Features is split out to another page, not on School_server,<br>
and School_server begins heavily with "Linux-based" and "hardware<br>
recommendations".)<br>
<br>
(e.g. XS_Community_Edition explains more about the project team,<br>
communications methods, contributors, and history than it does about<br>
the features.)<br>
<br>
I suggest that the product and development content be split so this<br>
distinction is clearer. If I got it so wrong, others may too.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree. Our challenge, and strength, is that most of the original people involved in the project support deployments as our day jobs. We all have a pretty good idea of what problems we want a school server to solve.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The question at the front of our minds was not "What should we do?" The question was "How can we do it without killing each other?"</div><div><br></div><div>Now that the project has made good progress sorting out the community stuff ( internal communication, decision making, release management ) We will see a shift towards external communication.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
My apologies for the misunderstanding.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>While painful, I found the recent threads extremely helpful. Talking (and more) amongst ourselves about how the world didn't get us, did not seem to be a particularly productive communication strategy for the XSCE community:( </div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
--<br>
James Cameron<br>
<a href="http://quozl.linux.org.au/" target="_blank">http://quozl.linux.org.au/</a><br>
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